Comb cleaner



Apr, 3. 1923.

A. J. BENNETT COMB CLEANER Filed Dec. 5, 1921 Patented Apr. 3, 1923.

ALBERT J'. BENNETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMB CLEANER.

Application filed December 5, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. BENNETT,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Comb Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for cleaning combs, and has for its object the production of a superior device for this purpose.

In the accompanying drawings- Fig. 1 is a perspective view; and

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section with intermediate parts broken away.

The general shape of the device is like that of a violin bow, in which the frame is represented by wire, and the horse hair by thread, preferably linen.

The frame, with its handle, is a continuous piece of wire bent into the form shown, and having its ends covered or inclosed by a sleeve 5 which forms the extreme end of the handle. From this sleeve, the branches 6 and 7 form the handle and extend thru another sleeve 8, from which point they diverge to form the horizontal portions 9 and 10. These portions are then bent downward to form the vertical members 11 and 12 which are connected thru horizontal members 13 and 1 1 with other vertical members 15 and 16. A horizontal part 17 connects 15 and 16, and corresponds to the parts 9 and 10.

Connected to the upper parts of the uprights 11 and 12 is a bridge 18 having its ends 19 and 20 bent around parts 11 and 12. The upper edge of the bridge is in the 40 form of a comb having teeth 21 which are bent slightly over the parts 9 and as shown in Fig. 2. On the uprights and 16 is another, bridge 22 having teeth 23 similarly bent over the horizontal wire 17 The bridges 18 and 22 are secured to their uprights by having their ends grasp those uprights with suflicient tightness to maintain said bridges in position. However, the bending of the teeth over thehorizontal wires while the grasping ends are under those wires, serves to lock said bridges in place.

It will be observed that the members 11,

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nected to tooth 25. This thread is wound upon the teeth by hand, or may be so wound. In carrying the thread from tooth 25 to and around the corresponding tooth in comb 23, and then back around the tooth adjacent to 25, there is a slight tension on the thread which tends to stretch it and also to draw the opposite legs of the Us toward each other. For the first few laps of thread back and forth around teeth 21 and 23, this deflection of the legs of the Us is inappreciable in amount, but by the time there are twenty or thirty laps on the teeth, the deflection is enough to make the frame into a spring which keeps the thread taut after the end has been secured to tooth 26. As the thread is simply looped on the teeth, any inequalities in tension which occur during winding are equalized by the slipping of the thread on the teeth when the device is used. The outward incline of teeth 21 and 23 maintains the loops of the thread at the bottom of the teeth.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, a frame and a handle therefor formed of a continuous piece of wire having its ends in the handle, the central part of which piece of wire forms a horizontal member 17, from the ends of which the wire extends in two branches to form two U-shaped members, from the other ends of which Us the wires are brought together to form another horizontal member corresponding to the first one mentioned, a connection securing the branches of wire together at this junction, the branches extending from this connection to form the handle. bridges connecting the upper ends of the W5 and serving to reinforce the frame at the points where the Us merge into the horizontal members, said bridges having teeth on their upper edges, and thread mounted upon said teeth and given tension by the Us of the frame.

2. In a device of the class described, a

. frame consisting of two U-shaped members formed of continuous Wire so bent that the upper ends of corresponding legs of the Us are connected together by horizontal mem- ALBERT J. BENNETT. 

